lii THE WORKING OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



(11) The Council do not recommend the adoption of 

 ' Institutional Membership.' 



(12) Membership Tickets for Subscribers to Local Funds.— 



When a guarantee or subscription fund is to be raised, to meet 

 local expenses of an Annual Meeting, in the locality where the 

 meeting is to be held, there should be a regular understanding 

 that £1 fro^T each guarantee or subscription of £5 or over should 

 be paid by the Local Executive to the Association, in return for 

 which the Association will provide each guarantor of £5 or over 

 with a ticket of membership for the meeting. 



(B) Changes in the Anmial Volume, and Separate Issue of 



Sectional Transactions. 



Questions of possible changes in the contents of the Annual 

 Volume, and the partial substitution of an issue of separate 

 transactions of individual Sections, were I'oopened before the 

 Committee, but they considered that the discussion of these ques- 

 tions in recent years (culminating in a plebiscite of members) has 

 disposed of them. 



The Committee considered, however, that if any Sectional 

 Committee in any year is aware of a demand for not less than 

 60 copies of a separate issue of its transactions, and will under- 

 take their distribution by sale so as to repay the extra cost of 

 these copies, the Council should sanction such separate sale. The 

 Council accepts tliis recommendation. 



(C) Arrangements at Annual Meetings. 



(1) Duration of Annual Meeting. — ^There is support for the 

 permanent adoption of the period Tuesday — Saturday for the 

 Annual Meeting (as at the recent Manchester and Newcastle 

 meetings), and there are strong arguments in its favour as against 

 the old period, "Wednesday — Wednesday. But the period Tues- 

 day — Saturday has been decided upon for the meeting this year 

 at Bournemouth, and the Council consider that this will afford 

 further opportunity for consideration of the question ; they there- 

 fore make no recommendation. 



(2) Numbering of Seats at Inaugural Meetings and Evening 

 Discourses. — It has been proposed that this practice should be 

 given up, in order to simplify work at the Reception Boom 

 counters, and to avoid penalising members who cannot arrive, and 

 book seats, early. On this proposal all seating (except any 

 retained for officers, members of General Committee, or guests) 

 would be unreserved, and the membership ticket alone would adroit. 



The Committee made no recommendation, but they suggested 

 that the General Officers, with the Assistant Secretary, at the 

 forthcoming meeting, be instructed to inquire into the question 

 on the spot, and this suggestion will be carried out. 



(3)^ Excursions. — An opinion has long existed that the general 

 excursions which used to be arranged for Members attending 



